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Tavia & Tamara

Autavia “Tavia” Bailey was born in Walla Walla, Washington on November 29 th. She was raised in California, Germany, and then South Dakota. At the age of 17 she decided to move to New York to pursue her dancing career. She began to dance and train at Broadway Dance Center, where she took up Jazz, Street Jazz, and Hi-Hop. After a couple of years of training she landed her first job, a tour with Eve on The Ruff Ryders/ Cash Money Tour.

Tavia has been blessed to work with Missy Elliot, Whitney Houston, Kelis, Mario, ‘Nsync, Faith Evans, Ray J, Musiq, Soulchild, Fat Joe, and Sean Paul. She has gone on to do music videos, international and national tours, commercials, award shows, amd feature films.

Autavia plans to continue dancing as well as pursue other areas of the entertainment business.

Tamara Marrow started dancing at a young age. Taking several dance classes which included tap, ballet, and jazz. Immediately she loved it and new she would be dancing for years to come. She attended Marymount Manhattan College. Although she majored in business she studied dance as well, and graduated with her BA in business management. In her junior year of college she realized that not only did she love to dance, but teaching dance was something that came natural for her. From then until now she has continued to teach and choreograph for national competitions, winning many awards. 

After graduating college she continued her dance career. She danced for the New York Knicks for three years. After that her goal was to dance for hip hop, pop, and r and b artist. Well it happened, she has danced for such artist as Missy Elliot, P Diddy, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, and Tweet to name a few. Her latest and present job is dancing with Sean Paul.